I don't use iCloud,email, and I don't know anyone at my org who does, so
no, I haven't tried it.

FWIW, that action doesn't fit (yet) into our security policy, so it won't
happen for a while anyway.

Kurt

On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 3:41 PM, J- P <[email protected]> wrote:

> Have you actually tested this policy, by going logging into an iCloud
> account and clicking the mail tab.?  The rule you have (same one I have)
>  will block a mail client (outlook/thunderbird etc) from communicating
> through the standard ports,(25/110/143/587/993) but will it a block a web
> browser tab opening email?
>
>
>
>
> Jean-Paul Natola
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* [email protected] <[email protected]>
> on behalf of Kurt Buff <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 18, 2017 7:18 PM
> *To:* ntsysadm
> *Subject:* Re: [NTSysADM] Blocking iCloud email
>
> On Palo Alto firewalls, there's an application definition that you can use
> to block it - but it would probably also require MITM (aka web inspection)
> with your own certs to configure.
>
> [image: Inline image 1]
>
> Perhaps other brands of firewall can do that too.
>
> Kurt
>
> On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 5:35 PM, J- P <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>> I already have ticket with the vendor , but thought maybe someone here
>> may have already encountered this;
>>
>>
>> Objective,  block access to ALL non corporate email (we use exchange )
>>
>>
>> the filtering has blocked access to all WEB email (Hotmail, msn, aol,
>> yahoo, gmail,  etc)
>>
>>
>> however, if a user logs into their iCloud account they can still access
>> their apple/imail account , and they want to retain the ability to use all
>> other i-crap services, iCalendar, etc..
>>
>>
>> So blocking the  www.icloud.com url is not an option, anyone have any
>> pointers?
>>
>>
>> TIA
>>
>>
>>
>>
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